Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-22

tear. There is rs much religion, and I
think little more, in a spring morning
than in q starless midnight. Religious
work without any humor or wit in it is q
banquet with a side of beef. and that
raw, and no condiments, and no dessert
succeeding. People will not sit down at
such a banquet. By all means remove all
frivolitv and all bnthos and all lightness
and all vulgarity-strain them out
through the sieve Of holy discrimination;
hut, on the other hand, beware OF
that monster which over-shadows
the Christian Church to-day, con.
ventionality, coming up from the great
Sahara desert of Ecclesiasticism, having
on its back a hump Of sanctimonious
gloom, and vehemently refuse to swallow
that camel
Oh, how particular great many people
are about the infinitesimais while they are
quite reckless about the magnitudes.
What did Christ say? Did he not excoriate
the people in his time who were SO care.
full to wash their hands before q meal, but
did not wash their hearts: 1t is a bad
thing to have unclean hands; it is worse
thing to have an unclean heart. How
many people there are in our time who
are very anxious that after their death
they shall lie buried with their feet toward
the East, and not at all anxious that dur.
ing their whole life they should face in
the right direction, so that they shall
come up in the resurrection of the just
whichever way they are buried. How
many there are chiefly anxious that a
min lister of the Gospel shall come in the
line of apps tolic succession, not caring so
oh hath he A 10 nj
or Apostle Judas. They have a way Of
measuring q gnat until it is larger than a
camel.
Again: My subject photographs all
nose who are abhorrent of small sins
while they are reckless in regard to mag
nificent thefts. You will find many
merchant who, while he is so careful
that he would not take yard of cloth or
a spool of cotton from the counter with
out paying for it, and who, if a bank
cashier should make a mistake and send
in a roll of bills five dollars too much,
would dispatch a messenger in hot haste
to return the surplus, yet who will go in
to stock company in which, after
awhile, he. gets control Of the stock, and
then waters the stock and makes one hum
dred thousand dollars appear like two
hundred thousand dollars. He only stole
one hundred thousand dollars by the
operation. Many of the men of fortune
made their wealth in that way. One Of
those men, engaged in such unrighteous
acts that evening, the evening of the
very day when he watered the stock,
will find wharf rat stealing a news
paper from the basement doorway, and
will go out and catch the urchin
by thu collar, and twist the col
lar so tightly the poor fellow can
not saw that it was thirst for
knowledge that led him to the dishonest
act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter,
saying, 81 have been looking fer you a
long while; You stole my paper four or
five times, haven't you, you miserable
wretch?" And then the old stock gambler,
with voice they can hear three blocks,
will cry out, "Police, policew That same
man, the evening of the day in which he
watered the stock, will kneel with his
family in prayers and thank God for the
Of the day, then kiss his chill
dren good night with an air which seems
to say: 81 hope you will all grow up to be
rs good as your father" Prisons for sins
insectile in sizs, but palaces for crimes
No mercy for sins animal
Guile in proportion, but great leniency for
mastodon iniquity. A poor boy slyly
takes from the basket of a market woman
a choke pear-saving some one else from
the cholera-and you smother him in the
horrible atmosphere of RAYMOND Street
Jail or New York Tombs. while his cousin,
who has been skillful enough to steal $780,
600 from the city, you will make him
g..
ture!
There is great deal of uneasiness and
nervousness now among some people in
our time who have gotten unrighteous
fortunes-a great deal of nervousness
about dynamite. I tell them that God
will put under their unrighteous fortunes
more explosive than dynamite
the earthquake Of his omniDotent in
ilignation. 1t is time that we learn in
America that sin is not excusable in pro-
portion as it declares large dividends and
has outriders in equipage. Many man
is riding to perlition, position ahead and
Iackey behind. To steal one copy OF a
is a gnat; to steal many thou
sands of dollars is a camel. There is many
a fruit dealer who would not cons ,nt to
steal basket of peaches from neigh
bars stall, bat who would not scruple to
lepress the fruit market; and as long as l
can remember we have heard every
summer ''the peach crop OF
Maryland is failure" and by
the time the crop comes in the misrepre-
sentation makes a difference Of millions
Of dollars. A man who would not steal
one peach basket steals fifty thousand
peach baskets. Go down in the summer
time to the Mercantile Library, in the
-ea1ing rooms and see the newspaper re-
ports Of the crops from all parts of the
country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the same mon wrote
them, methodically and UNANIMOUSLY carry
ing out the huge lying about the grain
crop from year to year and for score of
years. After awhile there will be "cor-
ner" in the wheat market, and men who
had a contempt for petty theft will
burglarize the wheat bin Of nation and
commit larceny upon the American
corn crib And some of the men will
sit it churches aud in reformatory
institutions trying TO strain out
The small gnats of scoundrelism,
while in their grain elevators and their
,torehouses they are fattening huge cameis
WHICH they expect dAter ii"nHo W S""'
ow. Society has to be entirely recon-
,tructed on this subject. We are to find
That sin is inexcusable in proportion as
It is great.
know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say: ooh, what c'ass OF frauds
you have IN the Church Of God in this
lay:" and when an elder of a church, or
f.acon, o. a minister Of thu Gospel, Or a
of a Sabbath-school turns
put defau'ter. what display heads there
are in many OF the newspapers. Great
primer type. Five line plea. "Another
Saint Absconded," "Clerical Scoudfe.-